2010 Pacific Gravity Summer Party
Party like a 15 year old!
By Ian Fraser
This year’s summer party will celebrate Pacific Gravity’s 15 years in existence! To that end we are going old school! The retro theme is a throwback to our earliest summer parties of old but updated to celebrate our anniversary!
But first the business, the summer party will be held August 14, 2010 at Dean Sussman’s party pad located at 1310 Amalfi Dr. Pacific Palisades CA 90272. The party starts at 2 PM and continues on into the evening. Admission is free for you and 1 guest if you are a club member and $15 for each additional guest. Kids are free. Dean has a swimming pool and welcomes his guests to use it but all children must be supervised by an adult while in the pool.
This is our largest event of the year and we need your help to pull it off! As always this event is run by you volunteers and those of you who have helped in years past know how critical that is! Set up this year will take place on Friday Aug. 13 starting at 6 PM, the after party clean up will take place Sunday morning about 10 AM. Those of you who have done this before know how much fun we have at the set up, and last year everyone on the Sunday clean up crew wound up taking food home. We will be sending out additional information regarding what to bring, equipment needs and volunteer information.
The food theme will be a throwback to PG’s early days and feature carne asada. However I gotta be me and blow it up, so we will have carne asada, pollo asado, and smoked turkey in mole sauce, fresh grilled fish, smoked tongue and even carnitas as our proteins featured in the largest taco bar I have ever attempted. For you volunteer cooks out there any and all side dishes are welcome! We will need lots of sides, salads, and desserts to round out our menu. But given the main dish theme what I would really like to do is encourage everybody to make a salsa or guacamole and we will feature all of them on a table and even try to label yours so that everybody will know who brought what! I am trying to arrange a judging and we will acknowledge the crowds favorite salsa! So I herby throw down the challenge, bring your salsa or guacamole and try to beat me out as our very first salsa/guac. winner!
Our drink competition this year features lime, any drink alcohol, non-alcoholic, beer or soda that features lime is eligible for our drink competition, so get your creative juices flowing and create something! As always we will have a best beer competition as well as the drink competition plus the salsa competition, so there are many ways to win this year.
If you plan on bringing a soda or beer please let us know so that we can have a label made for you by contacting Mike at [email protected], if you plan on bring any food items or a salsa guacamole please contact me at [email protected]. Stay tuned for more information as we get the details ironed out we will be forwarding them to you.
